Facilitation Complications: Mitigating Interpersonal Challenges in Small Group Learning (Simulation and Educational Research Interest Group Sponsored)

Tina Chen is the Associate Dean of Simulation and Clinical Skills for Saint Louis University School of Medicine, as well as the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation for the Saint Louis University Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She completed Medical Simulation fellowship at the Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation at Hartford Hospital.

Dr. Rice is the Director of Simulation Education and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Affiliate Faculty with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety. They graduated from New York Medical College (2011) and completed their Emergency Medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2015). Dr. Rice is a graduate of the American College of Physicians Teaching Fellowship (2015), the Comprehensive Instructor Course at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston (2016) and has completed a Masters in Medical and Healthcare Simulation Education at Drexel University. She currently works at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a clinician and simulation-based educator with a focus on collaborative practice, safety culture, and professionalism.

Dr. Moadel is the Director for Simulation at North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health and serves as the Director of the Healthcare Simulation Fellowship within the Emergency Medicine Service Line at Northwell Health. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Prior her current roles, Dr. Moadel completed a Medical Simulation Fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine and continued for two years as the Director for Medical Student Simulation at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Center for Medical Simulation. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy’s Young Educator Award. She currently serves on the Simulation Academy Executive Board as Treasurer and serves as the lead for the Research Consultation Service as well as a liaison to the CORD Simulation Community of Practice on their joint Simulation Consult Service. Dr. Moadel's research interests include a grant-funded project utilizing simulation for microaggressions training, and utilizing simulation for novel applications in medical education.

Dr. Sokol is the Medical Director of Simulation, Co-Director of the Clinical Teaching and Simulation Fellowship, and Core Faculty member of the Emergency Medicine residency program at Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia, California. A graduate of both the emergency medicine residency program and simulation fellowship at the University of California Irvine, she is interested in running simulations for a variety of learners.

Dr. Charles Lei received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency training at the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, where he served as Chief Resident. He then completed a fellowship in Emergency Medicine Simulation at Stanford. Dr. Lei currently serves as the Medical Director of the Interdisciplinary Simulation and Education Center at Hennepin County Medical Center. His academic interests include healthcare simulation, medical education at all stages, curriculum development, teamwork training, and quality improvement.

Michael Hrdy, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and works in the pediatric emergency department at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is one of the core simulation faculty and is the Director of Emergency Simulation for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's King of Prussia campus. He completed Pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC. 

Dr Moss completed her medical school at Stony Brook University SOM. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the Zucker NSLIJ Emergency Medicine Residency, and stayed on to complete her fellowship in Health Professions Education and Simulation. She currently works at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY where she serves as an Assistant Director of Simulation Education and served as the Director of PA/NP Education. She is starting a new role at Einstein College of Medicine as the Director of the Transition to Clerkship Course and Theme Leader for Procedural Skills and Physical Examination for all medical students. She is heavily involved in residency simulation, residency education, and resident research and her current work is on expanding the teaching of palliative care to EM Residents.

Lars K. Beattie M.S., M.D., FACEP is the Residency Program Director at the the University of Florida Health Science Center Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) in Gainesville, Florida. He is a nationally recognized speaker and leader in EM education and has been a board-certified EM physician for the last 20 years. In 2005, he co-founded the Libertas Center for Human Rights at Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, New York. Since graduating residency, he has spent 19 years immersed in EM resident and student education. His role as a clinician and resident educator involves identifying evidence-based clinical practices, translating them into teaching strategies for learners, who ultimately bring that to patient care.

Through the construct of the Mt Sinai EM and the University of Florida Department EM Journal Club, he has coached residents and faculty in the principles of evidence-based medicine and its application in the assessment of the current medical literature. He has served on national, state, and local medical education committees including the society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy. He has given over 25 international and national presentations and is an experienced simulation educator. He has developed over 14 cases presented in international and national conferences for the Emergency Medicine Residency Association SIMWars. He is an editor of 4 books and has authored 12 education related publications. He has been awarded 2 grants including a Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement Grant for direct services to survivors of torture at Elmhurst Hospital Libertas Center Survivors of Torture Services Project.